After spending several years as a 7th grade public school teacher, I decided I was ready to pursue my dream of "doing anything else." Lucky for me, that something else was comedy.
People always ask why I chose to become a comic and its because the great ones are brilliant, no different than a Nobel Prize winning physicist or a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. They not only trick people into listening to taboo subjects, but make them laugh at them. Race, abortion, homosexuality, gender, politics; all issues that are used by the powers that be to divide people and drive a wedge through the common man are made light of by the great ones. The ability to speak to people and have them listen and maybe change the ideologies to which they once held dear is amazing to me and I think it will always be.
My various experiences from graduate school to working as a middle school teacher allow me to touch on topics that almost all can relate to. From my childhood in Cleveland to the current state of politics, I attempt to tackle each issue from a different angle and allow the audience to walk in my shoes, even if its one comedy set at a time.
Website
aljacksoncomedy.com
TV Shows
• “MTV’s MVP’s” 2008
• Last Comic Standing Season 6
Comedy Central's Friday Night Stand-Up '08
• National Burger King commercial
• Comedy Central’s “The Root of All Evil w/ Lewis Black”. (Topic Facebook)
• Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham” Season 2. May ‘07
• Comedy Central’s “address the mess.com” Spokesman Jan. ‘08
• Comedy Central’s Fresh Face of Comedy 2007
• NBC’s Last Comic Standing Season 4
Al Jackson's Interests
General
Comedy comedy football comedy basketball comedy.
Music
The Roots, Mos Def, Jazz, too lazy to write any more... do you really care unless you have to take a road trip with me. What ever music you like, get the XM radio, can't go a day without it.
Movies
JFK, Boomerang, Old School, Half Baked, Malcolm X
Television
Sports, stand-up... Im cheating on TV with Youtube at this point. MTV's my sweet 16, I always watch to remind myself that pure evil does still exist in this world.
Books
I reading a pretty hot book right now call Guns Germs and Steel... pick it up
I'm just looking forward to the day where I no longer have to pick and choose what bills I will pay and which will become coasters on my coffee table. I am also looking forward to being able to afford a coffee table.
Who I'd like to meet: George Carlin, Mos Def, Bill Clinton and Chris Hanson the host of Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator...
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was looking thru some old comments and saw ur face. .....HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND QUE PASAH!!!!!!!!!! JUST SAYIN HELLO hpe all is well with u and many blessings
i tried ta come chill wit you all dat day but i couldnt find our room den i was gonna go back ta da funny bone ta see demakco again but i ended up havin football practice. dat was a great show lol holla back shorts
YO!!! What's good?! Hey, I don't see any South Florida dates on your tour, man. Sup wit that? By the way I finally got me a spot, so...mi casa es su casa. feel me? holler back.
